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To: Pan_Yan

it just amazes me how many think because they had an Irish wolfhound in the family a hundred years ago they now are Irish.
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I’ve just talked to 3 Irish lads, real ones over in Ireland and all of them said they think Americans who pretend their Irish is a joke and it goes way over the top plus they forget this is a religious holiday for many real Irish.

Even worse in America is that some teachers tell the kids there are Leprechauns and then tell them to wear green and set out traps to catch Leprechauns but of course Christmas cannot be mentioned.

Last year we had a bunch of folks from NY staying down here, all of them wearing green, asking the waitress for green beer, one dressed as a Leprechaun WTH
When the restaurant ran out of green dye the group from NY refused to drink anything until the restaurant got more green dye.


27 posted on 03/17/2011 7:26:09 AM PDT by manc (Shame on all who voted for the repeal of DADT, who supported it or never tried to stop it. Traitors)
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To: manc

Thank you. I reminded my daughter that it is a religious Holiday to celebrate St. Patrick who brought the word of God to the Irish people and used the clover to represent three leaves in one...just like the Holy Trinity.


36 posted on 03/17/2011 7:53:38 AM PDT by KEmom (Proud to be a Mama Grizzly!!!)
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